an anecdote           
                                          
 today it rained,  and i would go outside 
 i thought,  so i  smoked a pipe and  got 
 dressed,  and   outside  the   rain  had 
 turned into  snow so  thick  that it was 
 as dense fog ... and then  i went to get 
 the  mail, but there was a woman  and we 
 talked  a little. now because i was high 
 and it  was  snowing so  funny and i had 
 an umbrella  against  the snow, but snow 
 all over my face  anyway, and i wondered 
        about myself, and my life